Invasion of Privacy hit the shelves in April 2018 just before the rapper, real name Belcalis Almanzar, announced her pregnancy and now the former Love & Hip Hop star wants to release her second studio album during the same time this year.

Speaking during an Instagram Live broadcast, the Money hitmaker said: ‘Of course it’s gonna be an album in 2019. Hopefully, I could get my album done around the same time that Invasion of Privacy came out, but I don’t know how possible that’s gonna be because I feel like I’m going to be extremely, extremely busy.’

It’s back to work for Cardi B, not that she stopped ever. (Picture: Getty Images)

The album was 2018’s most celebrated albums after it achieved multiplatinum status, and made Cardi the first female artist to have every track on an album certified gold or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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And it didn’t stop there for the artist as the record was the third most streamed album of 2018 on Apple Music, and the most streamed for a female artist, while on Spotify, Cardi was crowned again as the most streamed female, but the album was fourth overall.

Responding to the news of her RIAA certification on Twitter last month, Cardi wrote: ‘BIG MOMMA BARDI !! Im happy my album is amazing but I got sooo much pressure and anxiety cause I know I gotta kill it with my second one (sic)’

Back in September, soon after the arrival of her daughter Kulture – who she has with estranged husband Offset, Cardi admitted she felt guilty that she hadn’t been in the recording studio for two days.

Cardi announced her split from Offset in December (Picture: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

She shared: ‘I missed two days in the studio!Its Kulture fault,her eyes be telling me “don’t go momma ” … Sooooo much work , soooo little time. I shall finish though (sic)’

Cardi previously teased she was planning on unveiling at least five new tracks, which didn’t make her debut album.

In another Instagram live, she said at the time: ‘There’s about five songs that I was supposed to put on Invasion Of Privacy but they didn’t fit and make sense. So I’m gonna put it on this project that I really want to put out on 1 September, but I’m missing like four or five songs.

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